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Definition: Rap |
RapNoun1. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap". 2. A gentle blow. 3. The sound made by a gentle blow. 4. (informal) voluble conversation. 5. Genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged. 6. The act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack". Verb1. Strike sharply; "rap him on the knuckles". 2. Make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently". 3. Perform rap music. 4. Talk volubly. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rap" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Rap Not worth a rap. The rap was a base halfpenny, intrinsically worth about half a farthing, issued for the nonce in Ireland in 1721, because small coin was so very scarce. There was also a coin in Switzerland called a rappe, worth the seventh of a penny. "Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps."- Swift: Drapier's Letters. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. To warn workers in an adjoining working place of a blast, when the working places are separated by only a small pillar, by knocking on the pillar with a tool or bar. b. To test the roof by tapping it with a stick or bar.c. To signal by knocking on a steam, water, or air pipe. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Rapping is one of the elements of hip hop; it is a form of rhyming lyrics spoken rhythmically over musical instruments, with a musical backdrop of sampling, scratching and mixing by DJs. Early rap music did not contain any sampling, probably due to the fact that at the time (1979-1985) the equipment was not available.Rapping began as a variation on the toasting found in reggae and dub music, mixed with influences from radio DJs and playing the dozens. Also of influence were the works of The Last Poets and Gil Scott Heron. The original rappers, or MCs (from "Master of Ceremonies") would improvise rhymes over the beats created by the DJs. Early raps were frequently merely a sequence of boasts, or attempts to upstage the other MCs. See roots of rap music for earlier forms that also contributed to rap.
In the 1980s, rap became increasingly politicised, through the works of Public Enemy and others, and tended to chronicle the black urban experience. Gangsta rap may be seen in this context of subversion.
The first rap record was King Tim III by the Fatback Band (featuring the rapper King Tim III). The Sugarhill Gang followed the same year with Rappers Delight, that became a major hit and is based on Chic's disco track "Good Times".
Rapping can be seen as one of the four elements of hip hop: MCing (rapping), DJing (mixing, cutting and scratching), graffiti, and breakdancing. However, in the course of rap's history, new musical styles developed that use rapping but cannot be called rap music or hip hop - especially rapcore, also known as rap/rock or rap/metal. Some alternative rap has musically very little to do with hip hop and rap music.
Subcategories
See also: List of rappers
- Old school rap
- Rap metal
- New school rap
- Second wave rap
- Gangsta rap
- South side rap
- Bass rap
- Alternative rap
- Freestyle rap
- Southern rap
- Crunk-style rap
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rapping."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The first rap record is generally acknowledged to have been "King Tim III" by the Fatback Band in 1979, but there were many predecessors and early indicators of the possibilities of chanting rhymes over a musical background. Pure hip hop emerged from 1970s block parties in New York City. The block parties were closely related to sound systems in Jamaica, which were large parties, originally outdoors, thrown by owners of loud and expensive stereo equipment which they could share with the community. Rap emerged from block parties after DJs isolated percussion breaks and began speaking over the beats; in Jamaica, a similar vocal style called dub developed from the same isolated and elongated percussion breaks.
Earlier styles that contributed to rap
One bright day in the middle of the night,
- West African griots, wandering poets and "praise-singers"
- spirituals and other forms of Christian music, as well as certain Protestant preachers' sermons
- mouth music, long-standing tradition in world music of many varieties
- scat singing, using the voice to imitate a musical instrument.
- toasting, traditional African-American entertainment, long, rhymed tales of great heroes, Stagger Lee and Jack Johnson among others (see dub)
- Dirty Dozens, stylized exchange of insults.
- "Signifying Monkey", long series of rhymed tales in which the weaker monkey triumphs through tricks over the more powerful beasts of the jungle, a ruder version of the Brer Rabbit stories.
- talking blues, popularized by Woodie Guthrie, featuring rhyming talking with ironic asides to the audience.
- Late 1960s and early 70s poets like Gil Scott-Heron and the Last Poets
- jump rope and schoolyard rhymes, such as the following:
Two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other.
- Doo wop, using voices to imitate an entire band.
Individual performances that prefigured rap
While rap as a musical genre started in the 80s, there have been many black and white performers who succeeded with rap-style performances in early jazz, blues, pop, and country performances.
- Pinetop Smith's "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" (1929) in which the "girl with the red dress on" was first told "when I say stop, don't you move a peg, when I say go I want you to shake your leg".
- W.C. Handy's talking celebration of "Long John Dean, the bold bank robber from Bowling Green".
- Rosalind Russell, "Swing" (1953), a "patter song" written by Leonard Bernstein for the Broadway musical Wonderful Town that's just full of rappish talk -- "Old man Mose, kicked that bucket, down in the well, well, well, well ... Fish, it's my favorite dish"
- Champion Jack Dupree's "Big Leg Emma's" (1956), rhyming tale of a barrelhouse raid over slow blues piano: "I went down to Big Leg Emma's house, to get myself a drink of gin, but before I got in the house good, the law walked in".
- Bo Diddley's "Who do you love?", (1956) a maniacal boast, "I got a tombstone hand and graveyard mind, just 22 and I don't mind dyin'".
- Many funk songs by Parliament-Funkadelic, such as the spoken-sung call and response poetry of "Promentalshitbackwashpsychosis Enema Squad (The Doo-Doo Chasers)" (Funkadelic, One Nation Under a Groove, 1978)
- Napoleon XIV, "They're coming to take me away ha-ha" (1966), just one demented rhymer, a trap set, and a variable speed tape drive. And, on the B-side, the whole thing in reverse.
- Bob Dylan "Subterranean Homesick Blues'' 1960s vocal exercise.
- Bonzo Dog Band, "Humanoid Boogie" (1969): "Well, the humanoid boogie's gonna get to number one on the cha-cha-charts voted by the people-eeple-eeple of the record-buying publicoid".
- Numerous novelty songs of the 50s and 60s featuring rhythmic readings of rhymed verse (often with melodic choruses), such as "Please Mr. Custer", the tale of a reluctant Indian fighter; "All American Boy", the story of Elvis Presley, "Gitarzan" by Ray Stevens, "He's free as the breeze, He's always at ease, He lives in the jungle and hangs by his knees".
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Roots of rap music."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
RAP | English | Recurring advance payment | Business |
RAP | French | Rhinite allergique | Medicine |
RAP | German | Rechner-Anpassungs-Prozessor | Computing |
RAP | Greek | συγκεντρωτής προσβάσεων | Electrical Engineering, Post & Telecom |
RAP | Italian | Stazione federale di ricerche per la produzione animale di Posieux | Public Administration, Food & Agriculture |
RAP | Latin | RM:Institut federal da perscrutaziun per animals da niz a Posieux | Public Administration, Food & Agriculture |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: RapSynonyms: belt (n), blame (n), pat (n), rap music (n), strike (n), whack (n), whang (n), knap (v), knock (v), pink (v), tap (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affirmation | Swear by; (believe); insist upon, take one's stand upon; emphasize, lay stress on; assert roundly, assert positively; lay down, lay down the law; raise one's voice, dogmatize, have the last word; rap out; repeat; reassert, reaffirm. |
Disapprobation | Take down, take down a peg, set down; snub, snap one up, give a rap on the knuckles; throw a stone at, throw a stone in one's garden; have a fling, have a snap at; have words with, pluck a crow with; give one a wipe, give one a lick with the rough side of the tongue. |
Reprehension, remonstrance, expostulation, reproof, reprobation, admonition, increpation, reproach; rebuke, reprimand, castigation, jobation, lecture, curtain lecture, blow up, wigging, dressing, rating, scolding, trimming; correction, set down, rap on the knuckles, coup de bec, rebuff; slap, slap on the face; home thrust, hit; frown, scowl, black look. | |
Impulse | Strike, knock, hit, tap, rap, slap, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pink, lunge, yerk; kick, calcitrate; butt, strike at; (attack); whip c. (punish). |
Blow, dint, stroke, knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab; fillip; slam, bang; hit, whack, thwack; cuff; squash, dowse, swap, whap, punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce, calcitration; ruade; arietation; cut, thrust, lunge, yerk; carom, carrom, clip, jab, plug, sidewinder, sidewipe, sideswipe. | |
Insolence | Verb: be insolent; Adjective: bluster, vapor, swagger, swell, give oneself airs, snap one's fingers, kick up a dust; swear; (affirm); rap out oaths; roister. arrogate; assume, presume; make bold, make free; take a liberty, give an inch and take an ell. |
Malediction | Curse and swear; swear, swear like a trooper; fall a cursing, rap out an oath, damn. |
Money | Petty cash, pocket money, change, small change, small coin, doit, stiver, rap, mite, sou, penny, shilling, tester, groat, guinea; rouleau; wampum; good sum, round sum, lump sum; power of money, plum, lac of rupees. |
Poverty | Adjective: poor, indigent; poverty-stricken; badly off, poorly off, ill off; poor as a rat, poor as a church mouse, poor as a Job; fortuneless, dowerless, moneyless, penniless; unportioned, unmoneyed; impecunious; out of money, out of cash, short of money, short of cash; without a rap, not worth a rap;(money); qui n'a pas le sou, out of pocket, hard up; out at elbows, out at heels; seedy, bare-footed; beggarly, beggared; fleeced, stripped; bereft, bereaved; reduced; homeless. |
Punishment | Lash, scaffold; (instrument of punishment); imprisonment; (restraint); transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism; penal servitude, hard labor; galleys; beating;Verb: flagellation, fustigation, gantlet, strappado, estrapade, bastinado, argumentum baculinum, stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear; blow; (impulse); stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel; slap, slap in the face; wipe, douse; coup de grace; torture, rack; picket, picketing; dragonnade. |
Resentment | Buffet, slap in the face, box on the ear, rap on the knuckles. |
Speech | Verb: speak of; say, utter, pronounce, deliver, give utterance to; utter forth, pour forth; breathe, let fall, come out with; rap out, blurt out have on one's lips; have at the end of one's tongue, have at the tip of one's tongue. |
Unimportance | Straw, pin, fig, button, rush; bulrush, feather, halfpenny, brass farthing, doit, peppercorn, jot, rap, pinch of snuff, old son; cent, mill, picayune, pistareen, red cent. |
Voice | Verb: utter, breathe; give utterance, give tongue; cry; (shout); ejaculate, rap out; vocalize, prolate, articulate, enunciate, pronounce, accentuate, aspirate, deliver, mouth; whisper in the ear. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Rap |
| English words defined with "rap": break dance, break dancing ♦ knock ♦ rap group, rap music, Rapped, Rapping, Renne ♦ To rip out. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rap": rap1 GTP-Binding Proteins, rapping pin, rapping roller, rapping spike. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "rap": Rapper. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Rap" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (adroit, agile, alert, brisk, keen), French (rap, rapping), German (rap), Italian (rap), Latin (Swiss Federal Research Station for Animal Production of Posieux), Manx (cheat, counterfeit coin, jot, rogue), Norwegian (belch), Spanish (rap). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He was dead just long enough for the murder rap to blow over (The Usual Suspects; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie.) You know Salt, fear gets a bad rap. I don't want anybody in my outfit that doesn't get scared (Outbreak; writing credit: Laurence Dworet; Robert Roy Pool) Play some rap music (The Last Boy Scout; writing credit: Shane Black.) Rap, metal, rap, metal, and Whitney Houston (Empire Records; writing credit: Carol Heikkinen) You would believe Will if he told you that he were some big rap star, whose album just went platinum (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air; writing credit: Hisao Ohkawa; Kaoru Umeno) | |
Lyrics | I been in the game for ten years makin' rap tunes (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC) I guess I'll rap on your door (Until You Come Back To Me; performing artist: Aretha Franklin) It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap ("Born to Run"; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) With a producer who can rap and control the maestro (Nuthin But A "G" Thang; performing artist: Dr. Dre) Talkin' black, brainwashed from rock and rap (Sing For The Moment; performing artist: EMINEM) | |
Movie/TV Titles | God Has a Rap Sheet (2003) O Rap do Pequeno Príncipe Contra as Almas Sebosas (2000) A Rap at the Door (1999) Rap (1997) Lada rap (1992) | |
Song Titles | PsychoRelic Rap (performing artist: Timothy Leary) | |
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![]() | A view of the rip rap on the beach. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | Army Creek Pond a freshwater pond about 1 mile upstream from the tide gate/water control structure. A rip rap dam creates the lake, the Army Creek Landfill is on the right through the trees. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | Removal of trash at Ft. McHenry, this site is a created wetland, the rip rap around the border was placed to stabilize the area. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | Penny Dalton, former Assistant Administrator for NOAA Fisheries, cleans trash and debris from the rip rap around the perimeter of the wetlands at Ft McHenry. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | NOAA volunteers clean and remove trash from the rip rap. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | Plug site 7 looking northwest along the existing oil access canal. A shell and rip rap plug was constructed across a section of the existing canal which measured approximately 157 feet wide by 10 feet deep. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | Rip rap helps stabilize the banks of a stream in a water quality project in northeast Iowa. Credit: Tim McCabe. | ![]() | Rip rap installed on a streambank in Cass County to protect the bridge. Credit: Lynn Betts. |
![]() | Innocent bystander takes the rap. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Basement" by Igor Hobotov Commentary: "Just a picture from the basement were i make all my rap songs..." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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| Converse; background noise; gathering; party; cocktail; chat; chitchat; commune; confer; discourse; exchange; gab; parley; rap; schmoose; speak; yack; talk. | Impatient; knock; door; rap; rapping; knocking. | ||
| Drum; beat; rap; thunder. | Punch; punching bag; violence; violent; fighting; fight; hit; hitting; bash; belt; biff; blow; bop; box; buffet; clip; clout; cuff; dig; jab; jog; knock; lollop; nudge; one-two; plug; plunk; poke; prod; pummel; rap; shot; slam; slap; slug; slug; smack; sm. | ||
| Bonk; bang; bat; bell ringer; belt; biff; blow; buffet; bump; butt; chop; clash; clip; clout; collision; cuff; fisticuff; glance; haymaker; impact; knock; leather; lick; one-two; one-two punch; paste; pat; plunk; punch; rap; rap; roundhouse; shock; shot; . | |||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
H. Rap Brown | Violence is as American as cherry pie. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There was a second rap, very gentle like the first |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Denmark | American culture--and particularly popular culture, from jazz, rock, and rap to television shows and literature--is very popular in Denmark. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Jon Stewart | The rock guys, the morning zoo. The rock, that sort of thing. The rap, it all rhymes. It's just a difference of the beat. |
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| "Rap" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.19% of the time. "Rap" is used about 297 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 85.19% | 253 | 18,652 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 6.73% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.4% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (common) | 1.01% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.34% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.34% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 297 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "rap": beat the rap ♦ don't care a rap ♦ give a rap on the knuckles ♦ he doesn't care a rap ♦ i don't care a rap ♦ it is not worth a rap ♦ not to care a rap ♦ not worth a rap ♦ rap artist ♦ rap group ♦ rap GTP-Binding Proteins ♦ rap music ♦ rap on the knuckles ♦ rap out ♦ rap out an oath ♦ rap session ♦ rap sheet ♦ rap smb. over the knuckles ♦ take the rap ♦ to beat the rap ♦ to rap ♦ To rap and ren ♦ To rap and rend ♦ To rap out. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "rap": rap-fusion, rap-like, rap-stations, rap-styled, rap-tap, rap-tastic, rap-type, rap-vocalist, rap-weary. | |
Ending with "rap": anti-rap, jazz-rap, map-rap, ragga-rap, rip-rap, street-rap. | |
Containing "rap": soul-rap-house. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
rap lyrics | 7,335 | dictionary rap | 243 |
rap | 5,631 | b lyrics r rap | 229 |
rap music | 4,403 | rap star war | 229 |
rap artist | 547 | christian rap | 228 |
freestyle rap | 537 | new rap song | 224 |
top rap song | 482 | underground rap | 215 |
rap song | 473 | top 100 rap song | 210 |
rap video | 469 | rap music video | 201 |
gangsta rap star war | 417 | rap album | 199 |
rap beat | 392 | lyrics to rap song | 194 |
battle rap | 345 | rap city | 193 |
chicano rap | 317 | battle freestyle rap | 189 |
hip hop rap lyrics | 314 | rap midi | 176 |
rap poster | 299 | new rap music | 172 |
rap hip hop | 292 | best rap song | 171 |
chart rap | 291 | rap history | 168 |
rap wallpaper | 279 | free rap beat | 158 |
rap news | 277 | gangsta rap | 156 |
old school rap | 276 | rap and hip hop music | 150 |
rap instrumental | 257 | 10 rap song top | 150 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "rap"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | trokas (clink, dab, drum, knock, percuss, tap), tokitje, them prerazi, shaj (abuse, ballyrag, berate, bullyrag, call names, carpet, castigate, chastise, chide, come down on, curse, dish it out, dress down, flay, inveigh, jaw, lay into, objurgate, offend, rag, revile, scold, shake up, shout, shout at, swear, tell off, trounce, upbraid, vituperate), qortoj (admonish, berate, call down, carpet, castigate, chide, come down on, correct, damn, decry, discommend, dish it out, knock, lecture, light into, Peck, pull up, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, take to task, tell off, trim, twit, upbraid), përgjigj brutalisht, kërcitje (clack, clash, click, clicking, crack, crackle, crackling, crash, creak, crepitation, crunch, Gride, grinding, groan, pop, pound, rattle, scratch, screech, snap, splutter, squeak), goditje e lehtë (flick, flip, jog), godit lehtë (flick), fajësoj (accuse, blame, convict, impute the fault to another, incriminate, inculpate), fajësim (blame, imputation, incrimination), dënoj (be exiled, castigate, censure, condemn, criminate, damn, declaim, delate, denounce, deprecate, discipline, doom, penalize, proscribe, punish, reprehend, sentence, trounce), dënim (adjudication, castigation, censure, condemnation, conviction, damnation, denouncement, denunciation, deprecation, disapprobation, disapproval, discipline, dispraise, doom, judgement, judgment, mulct, penalty, proscription, punishment, recompense, sentence, strafe, what for). (various references) | |
Arabic | قرع (bang, banging, beat, beating, chide, drum, hitting, knock, knocking, rapping, ring, sound, striking, tap, toll), ثرثر (babble, blab, blabber, bluster, chatter, clack, clatter, crack, gabble, gas, gibber, give oneself airs, gossip, jabber, jangle, jaw, natter, palaver, patter, prate, prattle, quack, rumble, shoot one's mouth off, smatter, talk, tattle, twaddle, twitter, yap), إدانة (ban, condemnation, conviction, sentence), إعتقل شخصا, إنتقد بقسوة (castigate, decry, flay, flog, lapidate, pull to pieces, scarify, scourge, slam, slash, squib), ضرب بشدة (punch), طرق (bang, beating, enter, knock, knock repeatedly, knocking, percuss, percussion, pounding, puncture, tool), طقطقة (clack, click, crackle, crackling, patter, pinking, plink, slap, sputter), عاقب (administer, blister, castigate, chasten, chastise, correct, discipline, mete, paddle, penalize, punish, recompense, strafe, suffer, trounce), سجل (book, calender, cut, enroll, enter, history, list, log, mark, mark down, note, put down, record, register, registry, score, send in, set down, sign on, take notes, tally, transcribe, write down), ربت (clap, dab, fondle, gentle, knock, pat, slap), توبيخ (admonition, censure, correction, dressing down, lesson, objurgation, rating, rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reproof, scolding, talking to, telling off, upbraiding, wig), فنان الراب (rapper), قرع بدقة, نجا (come through, escape, lick into shape, ride out, shave), نطق بشىء فجأة, نزح الماء, نقد قاس (overcritical), نقاش (chaser, chasing, explanation, talking), مغني الراب, موسيقى الراب (rapping), كف اليد (pave), ترك (break, cast aside, discontinue, ditch, drop, drop it, drop out, lay aside, leave, leave about, let go, neglect, peg, quit, resign, resignation, sign away, strand, suffer, unhand). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мъмря (call down, caution, correct, lecture, lesson, objurgate, rebuke, reprimand, school, scold), плесвам (dab, slap, spank), потропвам (knock), потупвам (clap, dab, spank, tip), почуквам (knock), почуквам леко, почукване (knock, knocking, tap, tapping), похлопвам (knock), похлопване (tap), пипвам (catch, cop, feel, grab, nab, nail, nip, pinch, pull, snag, touch), арестувам (apprehend, arrest, attach, bring in, bust, impound, nab, nail, nip, pick up, pinch, pull, restrain, round up, run in, secure, seize, take in, take up), съобщавам чрез чукане, наказание (amercement, award, castigation, discipline, gruel, infliction, judgement, judgment, pain, pay, payment, penalty, plague, punishment, requital, retribution), нещо без стойност (lemon), осъждам (adjudge, be naughty, blame, condemn, convict, damn, denounce, deplore, doom, reprehend, sentence), вина (blame, criminality, delinquency, fault, guilt), кастря (carpet, crop, knife, lop, pare, pare off, prune, trash), рап, разговор (colloquy, conversation, dialogue, interlocution, passages, talk, word, words), удар (bang, bat, blow, buff, buffet, butt, chop, clash, clump, counter, cut, dint, go off, hit, impact, impingement, jab, jar, keystroke, knock, pass, pelt, percussion, push, shake, shock, shy, smack, smash, strike, stroke, thrust, touch, turn, whack, whiplash, wipe), укор (imputation, objurgation, rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reproof, snub), бъбря (burble, chatter, prate, prattle, talk, tittle tattle, yarn). (various references) | |
Chinese | 随机存取程序, 敲擊 (pound), 巡迴分析端口 (Roving Analysis Port). (various references) | |
Czech | rána (bang, bash, biff, blow, bounce, clout, hit, knock, report, shock, shot, slap, slash, sock, strike, stroke, swipe, whack, whang, wound), klepnutí, klepnout, klepání (clack, knock, knocking), úder (beat, blow, buffet, bump, chop, coup, dash, hit, percussion, push, shock, stroke, swipe, thrust). (various references) | |
Danish | uformel session (rap session), trip (delysid, hallucination, LSD-25, lysergyc acid diethylamide, round trip, round tripping, to rap, to riff, trip, tripping). (various references) | |
Dutch | informele sessie (rap session), aankloppen (knock at the door, rap at the door). (various references) | |
Esperanto | frapi sur la pordon (knock at the door, rap at the door). (various references) | |
Farsi | تقصیر (Crime, Delinquency, Error, Guilt, Offense), سرزنش سخت , زخم زبان (Brickbat, Diatribe, Rebuke), ضربت تندوسریع زدن , صدای دق الباب . (various references) | |
Finnish | koputus (knock), koputtaa (knock). (various references) | |
French | rap (rapping), réprouver, réprimande, inculpation, blâmer, causette, claque, cognement, cogner, condamnation, conversation, bavarder, frapper sur, taper, petit coup, petit coups secs, tailler une bavette, tape, donner un coup sec. (various references) | |
German | rap (Swiss Federal Research Station for Animal Production of Posieux), klopfen (bang, beat, beating, clap, detonate, hammer, hammering, hit, knock, knocking, palpitate, palpitation, Pat, pink, pound, pulsate, pulsation, strike, tap, tenderize, throb, to detonate, to knock, to palpitate), Geplapper (babble, babbling, chatter, chattiness, jabber, jabbering, patter, prattle). (various references) | |
Greek | κατηγορία (accusation, allegation, category, charge, class, complaint, kind, league), κτύπημα (battery, blow, box, bruise, coup, flick, hit, percussion, strike, stroke, thrust, whop), κτυπώ (bang, buffet, bump, clack, clobber, clout, cudgel, hit, impinge, knock, larrup, maul, shroud, slat, smite, strike, swat, thrash), μορφή (carping, figure, form, look, obloquy, shape), εκστομίζω (utter), ελάχιστο τι (scruple). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשוחח חפשי, לדפוק (bang, beat, drive on, knock, strike, throb, tick), לטפוח (clap, dub, tap), דפיקה (beat, knock, stroke, tap, tapping). (various references) | |
Hungarian | koppintás, fricska (fillip, flick, flip). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ketokan (dab, knock, pounding), catuk (a hammer, aspoonful, peck at, rap on). (various references) | |
Italian | rimprovero (animadversion, correction, nagging, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reproof, scolding, taunt, twit, upbraiding), rap (Swiss Federal Research Station for Animal Production of Posieux), scapaccione, colpo (bang, beat, blow, bout, buffet, bump, chop, clap, clout, dab, dash, fit, flap, flick, hit, hitch, hoot, jab, knock, pelt, punch, punishment, putt, shock, shot, slam, slap, sock, splash, stamp, sting, strike, stroke, thump, thwack, whack), colpire (affect, bang, beat, buffet, bump, catch, clout, damage, dazzle, hit, jab, knock, Lam, pelt, poke, pound, punch, run across, shock, shoot, slap, smite, sock, spear, strike, strike down, swat, swipe, thwack), chiacchierare (blab, chat, chatter, gossip, natter, prate, talk, tattle, twaddle, visit), bussata (knock), bussare (knock, knock at, tap), battere (bang, baste, bat, batter, beat, belabor, belabour, chime, clobber, detonate, flail, flap, flog, flutter, fly, hammer, hit, knock, lambaste, maul, mint, outplay, overcome, pound, pulsate, strike, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, whack, whip, win). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ラタン家具 (lacquer, ladder, lap, lap time, laptop, LASH, latch, latex, Latin, Latin America, Latin-American, latitude, lucky, lucky seventh, lucky zone, rack, Rassa, rat, rattan furniture, ruck, rudder, ruffle, rush, rush hour, rush print, Russell, wrap, wrap-around, wraparound skirt, wrapping). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ラップ (lap, wrap). (various references) | |
Korean | 후방지역 방호 (Rapped, Rapping). (various references) | |
Manx | poltey (clap, clapping, flap, thump), poltal (banging, clap, clapping, explode, thump), polt (bang, blast, blast explosion, clap, concussion, crack, crack sound, detonation, explosion, flap, report, shot, snap, stroke, thump), far-lhieng, crank (knock, tap). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | apray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vociferar (bark, bluster, snap, thunder, vociferate, yap), usar linguagem rude (dab), trocar pontos de vista (dab), praguejar (curse, cuss, dab, swear), piparote (fillip), ninharia (ace, bauble, dab, falderal, fallal, gewgaw, inch, knick-knack, little, nick-nack, non-essential, nothingness, picayune, straw, trifle, trinket), insignificância (bagatelle, cuss, dab, fillip, insignificance, insignificancy, kickshaw, littleness, minuteness, nonentity, non-essential, nothingness, pittance, trifle, triviality), discutir (agitate, argue, canvass, controvert, debate, deliberate, discourse, discuss, dispute, gainsay, knock off, moot, quarrel, reason, spar, strike off, talk over, traverse, ventilate), coisa sem valor (chaff, dab, punk), coisa mínima (dab, jot), censura (accusation, animadversion, blame, censor, censorship, censure, condemnation, criticism, disapproval, faultfinding, impeachment, lecture, lesson, objurgation, rebuke, reprehension, reproach, reproof, scolding, sermon, set-down, slur, snub, trimming, upbringing, wigging), batida (battue, beat, bob, churn, hit, investigation, knock, research, slam, slap, strike, stroke), bater levemente em, bagatela (bagatelle, dab, doit, falderal, fangle, fillip, gewgaw, inch, kickshaw, knick-knack, nick-nack, nothing, ought, picayune, pin-head, rot, rubbish, straw, toy, trifle, trinket). (various references) | |
Romanian | rosti scurt, vorbi pe un ton tãios, lucru fãrã valoare (chaff, fillip, fox-fire, triviality), loviturã uşoarã (dab, flick, flip, tap, touch), lovi uşor (clap, dab, dib, flip), ciocãniturã (hammering, knock), ciocãni (drum, hammer, knock, Peck, peen, pelt, pound), bucãţicã (bit, knob, morsel, mouthful, speckle, whit), bobinã (bobbin, coil, reel, roll, spool), bate (bark, baste, bastinado, bay, beat, beat up, beetle, belabour, best, blow, box, bruise, buffet, burst, chastise, chime, clap, club, cob, contend, cuff, curry, dash, defeat, drive, drub, flail, flicker, flog, go, hit, horse, knock, knock in, lace, larrup, lash, lash into, lick, mint, paddle, palpitate, Pat, patter, peal, pound, pulsate, pulse, range, rattle, ring, shake up, shine, slap, smite, sound, spank, strike, swinge, switch, tan, tap, tew, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, tinkle, toll, wallop, whip, worst). (various references) | |
Russian | стучать (clunk, drum, knock, pink, thump), стук (clatter, clop, con, knock, knocking, patter, pinking, rataplan), ударять рэп, ударять (bang, beat, biff, crump, dub, jab, jounce, knock, slugged, slugging, strike, thump, whang), слегка ударять, ругаться (blackguard, curse, talk billingsgate), резко говорить, резко отвечать, критиковать (animadvert, criticize, satirize, sit in judgement), ответственность (accountability, amenability, liability, onus, responsibility, responsiblity, resposibility), наказание (amercement, castigation, chastisement, discipline, infliction, judgement, judgment, mulct, penalization, penalty, punishment, strafe, toco, what-for), легкий стук (tap), легкий удар (dab, flick, putt), браниться (quarrel, rate). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | udariti (bang, bash, bat, beat, belt, bump, clock, clout, conk, drive in, hack, hit, jog, knock, paw, percuss, poke, punch, ram, shock, strike, stub, swipe, wallop, whack), pričati (narrate), lupiti (bang, bump, hit, smite), lak udarac (flick, jog, tap, tip), kucanje (knock, knocking, throb, typing), kazna (castigation, fine, forfeit, penalty, punishment, retribution, scourge), čvrknuti. (various references) | |
Spanish | golpe seco (plonk, plunk, snap). (various references) | |
Swedish | lätt slag (dab, flick, Pat), knacka (beat the rap, hit, knock, strike, tap). (various references) | |
Thai | เสียงเคาะถี่ๆ, เคาะถี่ๆ, พูดโพล่ง, การด่าว่า, ด่าว่า (rail, tick off), จังหวะดนตรีชนิดหนึ่ง. (various references) | |
Turkish | metelik (bean, brass farthing, doit, farthing, penny, sou), şiddetle eleştirmek (badmouth, excoriate, reprehend, slate), azarlama (blast, castigation, dressing down, lash, rating, rebuke, reprimand, ribbing, scolding, strafing, upbraiding, vituperation, wigging), beş para, görüşme (bargaining, conference, conversation, debate, discussion, disputation, hearing, intercourse, interview, meeting, negotiation, parley, talk), hafif vuruş (dab, tap, tip), hafifçe vurmak (clap, flick, percuss, tap, tip), çalmak (abstract, adopt, bag, beat, beat out, blow, chime, cop, crib, defalcate, filch, finger, grind, grind out, heist, hijack, hoist, hook, hoot, incline, jangle, jingle, knelt, knock, knock off, lift, make off with, mooch, nobble, peal, pilfer, pinch, play, plunder, render, ring, rustle, scrounge, sneak, snitch, sound, steal, strike, swipe, tend, thieve, toll, twang, verge, verge into, verge on, walk away with, walk off with, whip), mahkum etmek (adjudge, condemn, convict, doom, sentence), zerre (atom, corpuscle, corpuscule, crumb, grain, granule, iota, jot, mite, molecule, monad, mote, particle, Ray, scintilla, shadow, sparklet, speck, tittle, touch, vestige, whit), sert eleştiri (diatribe, flak, pan, slating), suç (blame, caper, crime, criminality, culpability, delict, delinquency, error, fault, felony, guilt, irregularity, job, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offence, offense, sin, transgression, wrong), suçlama (accusal, accusation, accusing, arraignment, blame, blaming, censure, charge, complaint, condemnation, crimination, denunciation, excoriation, impeachment, incrimination, inculpation, indictment, plaint, reproach), tıklatma (knocking, tap, tapping), tıklatmak (rap out, tap), tartışma (altercation, argument, argumentation, bickering, brawl, breeze, broil, bust up, contention, contest, contestation, controversy, cross talk, debate, disagreement, discussion, disputation, dispute, hassle, jangle, moot, parley, quarrel, row, set to, shooting match, spar, sparring, teach-in, wordy warfare, wrangle), tutuklamak (apprehend, arrest, bust, imprison, jail, Nick, pick up, pull in, seize, take into custody, take smb. in charge), kapı çalınması. (various references) | |
Turkmen | tarsuldy, tarsuldamak, tarkyldatmak, tarkyldamak (rattle). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стукати (beat, chatter, clatter, dab, knock, thrash, thresh, thunder, wap), тихий стукіт, вигукувати (cry out, ejaculate, exclaim, outcry, shout), охоплювати (blanket, comprehend, comprise, cover, cut across, encircle, grip, grow on, lap, overtake, overwhelm, prepossess, wrap), захопити (bear away, capture, catch, clinch, collar, cop, take by storm, win), злегка ударяти, легкий удар (dab, flap). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự kết tội (accursal, accusation, condemnation, doom), cú đánh nhẹ (flick), cái gõ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | RM:Institut federal da perscrutaziun per animals da niz a Posieux. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | taper. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Revelation Chapter 14, Verse 16 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai ebalen o kaqhmenoV epi thn nefelhn to drepanon autou epi thn ghn kai eqerisqh h gh |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et misit qui sedebat supra nubem falcem suam in terram et messa est terra |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he that sat on the cloude, sente his sikil in to the erthe, and rap the erthe. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he that sate on the clowde thrust in his sykle on the erth and the erth was reped. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he who was seated on the cloud sent in his blade on the earth; and the grain of the earth was cut. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Revelation Chapter 14, Verse 16 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang naglingkod sa ibabaw sa panganud mipalihok sa iyang galab sa ibabaw sa yuta, ug ang yuta gianihan. |
| Croatian | I onaj što sjedi na oblaku baci srp na zemlju i zemlja bi požnjevena. |
| Danish | Og han, som sad på Skyen, lod sin Segl gå over Jorden, og Jorden blev høstet. |
| Dutch | En Die op de wolk zat, zond Zijn sikkel op de aarde, en de aarde werd gemaaid. |
| Finnish | Ja pilvellä istuva heitti sirppinsä maan päälle, ja maa tuli leikatuksi. |
| French | Et celui qui était assis sur la nuée jeta sa faucille sur la terre. Et la terre fut moissonnée. |
| German | Und der auf der Wolke saß, schlug mit seiner Sichel an die Erde, und die Erde ward geerntet. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu Dia yang duduk di atas awan itu mengayunkan sabit-Nya ke bumi, maka bumi pun dituai. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Lalu orang yang duduk di atas awan itu pun menyembatkan sabitnya ke bumi, lalu bumi itu pun dituailah. |
| Maori | Katahi tera e noho ra i runga i te kapua ka aki iho i tana toronaihi ki te whenua, a ka kotia te whenua. |
| Norwegian | Og han som satt på skyen, lot sin sigd gå over jorden, og jorden blev høstet. |
| Portuguese | Então aquele que estava assentado sobre a nuvem meteu a sua foice à terra, e a terra foi ceifada. |
| Rumanian | Atunci Celce wedea pe nor, Wi -a aruncat secerea pe pqmknt. Wi pqmkntul a fost secerat. |
| Shuar | Tutai yuranminiam eketu ni machitrijiai Nunká arakman tsupir juukmai. |
| Swahili | Basi, yule aliyekuwa amekaa juu ya wingu akautupa mundu wake duniani, na mavuno ya dunia yakavunwa. |
| Swedish | Den som satt på skyn högg då till med sin lie på jorden, och jorden blev avbärgad. |
| Uma | Ngkai ree tauna to mohura hi lolo limu' toei mpesoe mpu'u-mi are' -na hi dunia' pai' mpepae ihi' dunia'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rap": rapacious, rapaciously, rapaciousness, rapaciousnesses, rapacities, rapacity, rape, raped, raper, rapers, rapes, rapeseed, rapeseeds, raphae, raphe, raphes, raphia, raphias, raphide, raphides, raphis, rapid, rapider, rapidest, rapidities, rapidity, rapidly, rapidness, rapidnesses, rapids, rapier, rapiered, rapiers, rapine, rapines, raping, rapini, rapinis, rapist, rapists, rapparee, rapparees, rapped, rappee, rappees, rappel, rappeled, rappeling, rappelled, rappelling, rappels. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "rap": backwrap, bewrap, bootstrap, caltrap, cantrap, claptrap, crap, deathtrap, entrap, enwrap, firetrap, flytrap, frap, giftwrap, inwrap, jockstrap, livetrap, mantrap, mousetrap, prewrap, rattletrap, rattrap, rewrap, riprap, satrap, scrap, strap, trap, unstrap, unwrap, wentletrap, wrap. (additional references) | |
Words containing "rap": agoraphobe, agoraphobes, agoraphobia, agoraphobias, agoraphobic, agoraphobics, agrapha, agraphia, agraphias, agraphic, allograph, allographic, allographs, allotetraploid, allotetraploidies, allotetraploids, allotetraploidy, anemograph, anemographs, angiocardiographic, angiocardiographies, angiocardiography, angiographic, angiographies, angiography, antipornographic, antipornography, antirape, aortographic, aortographies, aortography, arapaima, arapaimas, aromatherapies, aromatherapist, aromatherapists, aromatherapy, arteriographic, arteriographies, arteriography, astrophotograph, astrophotographer, astrophotographers, astrophotographies, astrophotographs, astrophotography, autobiographer, autobiographers, autobiographic, autobiographical, autobiographically. (additional references) | |
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"Rap" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arepp, Arop, arpa, Arpi, Arpm, Erap, Krapp, Mrap, Orap, Orapa, Orpa, Qra, raa, ral, ralp, rao, Rapa, rapd, Rapg, raph, rapho, rapi, rapj, rapp, rappo, rappy, raq, ratp, rau, Rav, rawp, rax, rdp, relp, Repb, repp, repr, rewp, rfp, rhap, rhp, Rijp, riph, Rka, roap, rop, Ropp, rp, rpa, rpan, rpg, rph, rpn, rrap, Rrapo, rrip, rrp, rsp, rtp, rup, rupf, rupp. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rap" (pronounced ra"p) |
| 3 | r a" p | crap, entrap, frap, scrap, strap, trap, unwrap, wrap. |
| 2 | -a" p | cap, chap, clap, flap, gap, hap, lap, map, nap, pap, sap, slap, snap, tap, yap, Zap. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: par. | |
| Words within the letters "a-p-r" | |
-1 letter: ar, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-p-r" | |
+1 letter: aper, carp, crap, frap, harp, pair, para, pard, pare, park, parr, pars, part, pear, pram, prao, prat, prau, pray, proa, ramp, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, spar, tarp, trap, warp, wrap. | |
+2 letters: apart, apers, apery, aport, apres, apron, apter, arpen, asper, atrip, caper, carpi, carps, copra, cramp, crape, craps, drape, fraps, gaper, gramp, grape, graph, grapy, grasp, harps, harpy, japer, opera, pacer, padre, padri, pager, pairs, paler, paper, parae, paras, parch, pardi, pards, pardy, pared, pareo, parer, pares, pareu, parge, pargo, paris, parka, parks, parle, parol, parrs, parry, parse, parts, party, parve, parvo, pater, paver, pawer, payer, payor, pearl, pears, peart, perea, pilar, polar, praam, prahu, prams, prang, prank, praos, prase, prate, prats, praus, prawn, prays, presa, prima, proas, pruta, purda, pyran, ralph, ramps, raped, raper, rapes, raphe, rapid, rasps, raspy, reaps, recap, remap, repay, sapor, scarp, scrap, sharp, spare, spark, spars, spear, sprag, sprat, spray, strap, supra, taper, tapir, tarps, tramp, traps, trapt, vapor, warps, wraps, wrapt. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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